Étienne Vachon-Presseau

Global age and sex-specific reference curves for 11 pain sites, from 6.1 million people in 118 countries, found higher late-life pain in the lowest HDI countries, and provide a tool for benchmarking pain assessments in other cohorts.

Pain may not increase linearly with age, with the sharpest rises occurring before the age of 55, according to a global analysis of more than 6 million people published in Nature Medicine. go.nature.com/4ynaE7n #medsky 🧪

Out now in @natmed.nature.com: we pooled self-reported pain data from 6M+ people in 118 countries across the lifespan. Most pain types climb steeply before 55, women report more pain, and late-life pain is highest in low-HDI regions. Led by @mattfillingim.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Breaking #chronicpain news! 📺 Watch Global News Montréal at 1730 or @globalnews.ca National at 1830, for interviews by reporter Felicia Parrillo ... Featuring @evp82.bsky.social & Dr. Mark Ware, & me - as a chronic pain patient & advocate - about why these pain research results matter!💥

Chronic #pain involves changes in multiple brain systems for nociception, threat, and reward. What self-management practices can help us live with or even reverse these changes? Cognitive, behavioral, and #digitalhealth strategies can help! New review in Lancet: authors.elsevier.com/a/1l5%7EfV-4...

Our new @NatureHumBehav paper shows why we need a holistic pain biomarker framework. ML on blood tests, brain/bone imaging & genetics predicts clinical diagnoses but falls short on subjective pain. Adding psychosocial (mood, sleep, stress) boosts both. shorturl.at/vxxeO

Our new @NatureComms paper: We used UK Biobank data (n≈193K) to build ML models predicting tinnitus presence (driven by hearing health) and severity (influenced by mood, neuroticism & sleep). A simple 6-item POST questionnaire forecasts 9-yr outcomes. shorturl.at/4AF4P